Please meet Jasper …
The day before New Year’s Eve, a volunteer for Oldies Club, a UK dog rescue charity which I fundraise for, received a call from a vet to ask if the charity would be able to help with a dog in desperate need.
The dog, a 12 year old GSD x collie sort of dog, had been taken into the vets to be put down
The vets didn’t feel the dog should be pts and so phoned in the hope Oldies Club could help.
A foster home was found and the vets agreed to hold the dog until the next day so that our volunteer could collect him and meet up with the fosterer. Unfortunately sometimes things don’t go according to plan and the foster home’s car had problems which meant they could no longer travel to pick up the dog!
After checking with my dear husband (which seemed only polite since he would be doing the driving) we offered to step in and foster the dog on an emergency basis and travelled to meet our volunteer.
So the lovely chap came back with us yesterday, on New Year’s Eve. He was understandably having a very stressful time, taken from what he knew, spending the night at the vets and then travelling from Wales to Wiltshire! We introduced him to our own dogs and that all went very well, but he was finding it hard to settle, poor soul. The first night in particular he was definitely waiting and wanting to go home, he was pacing between our front and back doors, which was really rather sad to watch
He wasn’t sure about lying on the dog beds, so we encouraged him to settle on them by patting them and letting him know it was ok for him to use them. He did manage to spend some decent time resting that evening – the photo abvoe is from his first evening here
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